Question

Recently my three year old daughter's &quot;baby&quot; has hurt her feelings, made her frightened and tearful.

My little girl suddenly ran and jumped in my arms last night after waiting in a line to get her present at a secret santa party; she was crying terribly. She kept saying, "my baby hurt my feelings." She told everybody about this baby doing this to her. It happened so suddenly. What could be going on here? She's had this imagianary baby for about two months now, but I've never seen this type of reaction. My intitial feeling was that she didn't know how to deal with the confusion and chaos as the party then that she didn't understand why another child got the gift we brought although I did try to explain that before going and then again after she began crying, thinking it was the reason for her tears. Still, even though I said what I thought it might be, she adamanty stated over and over while crying terribly and holding me tightly, "NO! My baby hurt my feeligs. She's being mean to me." I went through the line with her and she got her gift, but remained stressed and bewildered.

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